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    loves at all costs even if it means to give their own life in order for their loved one to live. True love is unselfish and risks everything. They struggle as they see that their loved one crying for help. If their loved one was on the other side of the world, they would travel for miles even if it means walking for days. They have their own storms but would rather save us from our storms of trouble. In “A Worm Path” by Eudora Welty, Phoenix Jackson is a person who is tenacious, bold and a…

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    gave birth to Uranus, the king of the sky. They became the first husband and wife. The underworld is represented because Gaia and Uranus bore many children, but they were monsters with 100 arms and one eyed creatures called Cyclops (University of Phoenix,,1995-2020).These monsters were like giants. Uranus feared the monsters, although they were his children and he sent them under the earth later called the underworld. The elements in this world were birth, supreme beings such as Gods and…

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    redeeming yourself, that is the hope that propels society. A phoenix is a bird known to cyclically regenerate or give rebirth to itself. Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, lives in a future paradoxical world that is being corrupted by its own societal endeavors. In order to understand the life of Guy Montag, one must understand the true meaning of the phoenix. This could be deciphered from Grangers reference to the phoenix, Clarisse’s close connection to it, and…

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    American Airlines instructed me to file a claim with Allianz Global Assistance. The details of the trip and cancellation are as follows. On Friday, January 12, 2018 after a phone counsel with my physician, I cancelled my flight from Detroit to Phoenix because of a respiratory infection. Due it being a weekend, I was not able to visit the doctor’s office. However, the physician prescribed the attached medications and said that if I developed a temperature I would be contagious. This was…

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    the phoenix. The phoenix, comes from Egyptian mythology. As with most myths, phoenix is a large scarlet and gold bird. The phoenix has been credited with amazing powers like the ability to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye and to heal, for example. Perhaps the most incredible power is the determination of the phoenix to travel to Heliopolis, the sun city, towards the end of its life. From her name and appearance to her behavior and the symbolism running throughout the story, Phoenix…

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    In July 1967, these operations would become much more defined and much more disruptive as part of the Phoenix Program. The program was established in 1967 under Robert Komer as part of a larger pacification program known as Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). The goal of this pacification effort was quite simply “to win the hearts…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Allusion

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    Bradbury once wrote: “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn” (104). Referring to the book in how everyone is blind and lost to what life really is. Bradbury originally wrote the novel, Fahrenheit 451 as a short story called “The Fireman” in 1950 in Galaxy Science Fiction; he later published it as a novel in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is a book which proves technology can control a society because of how dependent Montag’s city is on it, which is illustrated by his…

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    Phoenix Jackson is an elderly African-American woman who is on an extremely weary and exhausting quest to the city, to receive medication for her sick grandson. While on her quest, Phoenix encounters a young Caucasian hunter who is awfully rude and racist. Before having an encounter with the young hunter, Phoenix has to walk a vast number of miles through the woods, walk through thorn bushes, climb up steep hills, and crawl through a barbed-wired fence. Phoenix faces a countless…

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    and devices. One of these devices are the prophecy orbs mainly featured in the fifth book of the series, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. These orbs have connections not only to the characters in the series, but also to the politics of the real world. The prophecy orbs are small balls of spun glass that contain a white, wisp-like mist. In The Order of the Phoenix, it is mentioned that these balls are stored in the Hall of Prophecy in the Ministry of Magic. The white, wisp-like mist…

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    A.) My immediate reaction to A Rose for Emily was positive. I liked the episodic approach. It gave a better way to give background information of the characters and situations. For example, section two, it brings the story back thirty years. “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before the smell” (DiYanni 80). I found this interesting because not many stories incorporate this type of approach. I did not find A Worn Path very interesting,…

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